kingdom come
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English
Etymology
From the phrase “Thy kingdom come” from the Lord’s Prayer which is recorded in Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4 in the Bible:[1] see, for example, Matthew 6:10 in the King James Version (spelling modernized): “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven.”[2] By these sentences, Jesus seeks the establishment of the rule of God the Father over the Earth in the future.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɪŋdəm ˈkʌm/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌm
- Hyphenation: king‧dom come
Noun
kingdom come (countable and uncountable, plural kingdoms come or kingdom comes)
- (uncountable, colloquial) The place that one will go to after one's death; the afterlife.
- (figuratively) Death; also, a state of complete annihilation.
- (Christianity, specifically) Heaven or paradise.
- 1843, Alfred Crowquill [pseudonym; Alfred Henry Forrester], “The ‘Plummy’”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, part I, page 624:
- "And where are all these brothers and sisters?" demanded the stranger. / "Dead! dead as herrings—gone to kingdom come a precious long time ago.["]
- (uncountable, Christianity) The rule of God over the world in the future; especially, according to those believing in millenarianism, during a period of peace beginning with the second coming of Jesus Christ and lasting a millennium.
- (countable, by extension) A future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress; a golden age that is approaching.
Derived terms
Translations
place that one will go to after one's death — see also afterlife
death — see death
state of complete annihilation
rule of God over the world in the future
future period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress
References
- ^ “kingdom come, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2017; “kingdom come, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 6:10, column 2: “Thy kingdome come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in heauen.”
Further reading
Kingdom Come (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
